GRADE 2011 Spring Funding Opportunity!
Over $2.6 Million in Grants Awarded
$100,000 Currently Available
GRADE+
Mecklenburg County Air Quality (MCAQ) recently received funding to expand and enhance its successful GRADE (Grants to Replace Aging Diesel Engines) project. For 3 years, MCAQ has administered a sub-grant program to provide incentive funding to organizations that replace, re-power, or retrofit their heavy-duty non-road construction equipment. With funding from the Federal environmental grants, stimulus funds, state grants and local funding has resulted in almost $3 million in funding to support GRADE since its inception in 2007.
Currently accepting applications for engine repowers and equipment replacements for non-road equipment, stationary and on road vehicles.
Deadline: June 17, 2011.
More Information on GRADE+
GRADE+ specifically targets nitrogen oxides (NOx) that contribute to the ozone problem in the Charlotte region. Any company that operates eligible equipment the 13 county region is eligible to apply for funding to clean up that equipment.
Since its inaugural year in 2007, GRADE...
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Awarded $1.9 Million to worthy projects
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Selected 165 projects and equipment for upgrades
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Funded projects in all 13 of the NC/SC counties in the Charlotte presumptive ozone nonattainment region
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Achieved a cost effectiveness of less than $3,500/ton of NOx reduced
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Removed 583 tons of NOx from our air over the next five years as a result of the selected projects
Current call for projects will be open through June 17, 2011.
Equipment Re-power - the old engine is removed from a piece of equipment and permanently destroyed. A new or newer less polluting engine is installed in its place.
Questions?
Contact the Mobile Sources Group, Mecklenburg County Air Quality
at 704-336-5430 or email us.
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